There is a dojo...

There is a Dojo - a place of practice

Far beyond the place

even beneath the space

within time it is hidden

 

Simplicity

is the language

the practice of love

is its DO

 

Practicing is 

the DO of DO-paths

where being and doing

becomes one

by letting go

 

The fee is 

not to judge

breath its rhythm

trust the glue

 

Consciousness the sensei

Fulfillment its goal

Healing of hearts

is its action

 

It needs no protection

Life itself guards is gates

 

Joy its song

Companionship its gift

 

It has no name

In this moment I call it

Dojo of  the Heart

 

My heart overflows with gratitude

For life

For being awake 

NOW

 

- toke in Vancouver Island 2010

There are Choices

There are choices to be made 

By each and everyone

If you awake to their importance. 

Do I want to be a slave

Of the yin or the yang?

Of the right and the wrong? 

Of the them and the us?

Or will I finally choose 

To be with Life as it breathes me?

As it flows

Ever so kindly 

Into me in its dynamic rhythm 

Offering its experience

Of oneness 

Of peace 

Of protection 

From the madness

Of living and perceiving life

Only as two fighting opposites?

How may I remember 

more often 

That all life is connected 

In one invisible whole 

That my heart knows so well?

• Toke - now 77 years on Planet Earth

As 2024 ends & 2025 begins

As 2024 ends & 2025 begins

Life and it’s nature keeps on

manifesting it’s flow and beauty

regardless of all we do.

That is beautiful to the Heart

This kind of beauty gives

inspiration, strength and clarity to choose

love over hate

kindness over violence

generosity over greed

humanity over ego

peaceful coexistence rather than

seeing others as someone to conquer.

May we practice and appreciate that Life connection

and the spaces of grace

it offers us all to share

with respect and love

Monica & Toke

Literacy for Peace

Ah to learn to peace

The urgency for peace

The urgency for stillness

For the calmess of Life flowing

In and between us

When we sincerely

Practise peace

Moment by moment

Each day

The unifying power of

Loving

Serving

Becoming amplifiers

Of peace and sanity 

For All

What a skill

What a determination

For cocreating

Literacy of Peace

flowing across

This troubled human race

For this beautiful Planet

What could also become possible

if we become skillful at peace?

To be with

To be with that

That cannot be spoken

But only felt

Is like feeling

The Oneness

Of it All. 

What a sweet open secret

Spiralling flow

As we spiral in

Returning to the Heart

What matters

Becomes 

Now

And 

Graceful kindness

Begins to flow

In all directions

Heaven's secret is motherly love.

Everyone under heaven

says that my Tao

is great, but inconceivable.

It is its very greatness that makes it inconceivable!

If it could be conceived of,

how small it would be!

 

I have three treasures to hold and protect:

The first is motherly love.

The second is economy.

The third is daring not

to be first in the world.

 

With motherly love one can be courageous.

With economy one can be expansive.

With humility one can lead.

 

To be courageous

without motherly love, to

be expansive without practicing economy,

to go to the front without humility

- this is courting death.

 

Venture with love

and you win the battle.

Defend with love and you are invulnerable.

Heaven's secret is

Motherly love.

Wisdom from The Tao Te Ching 2600 years ago - by Lao Tzu some where in China

Now is the Future

As time and space

Dances in the rhythm

Of

the Heart

The Now

reveals itself

To be the forever

Most real

&

Kind

Possible future

 

Wishing you all a peaceful 2024

- in the midst of it all.

With love for Life in All

 

Monica & Toke

Peace today

Peace is

- peace is important

- peace for me is

my responsibility. 

For peace tomorrow 

I practise peace 

today. 

Today is global peace day. 

A bow of gratitude for

the everlasting gift of

the experience of peace within 

From there arises 

peace in action.  

☺️❤️🙏🌀

Letting go

Oh - to let go

Of all my 

Expectations

Complications

Judgements

 Disturnbances

Opions

Rights & wrongs

All the noise

To entrust all that

To what forever changes

To rest in the rhythm

Of breath

To drink of the oneness

A wee bit more

Each moment

Each day

• Sejs 20 August 2023

Louder

It is time

For me now

To listen louder

To the wisdom 

That flows

In the Now

To more moments

Of my life time

As its ending

Comes closer with every breath

To my heart within

For its drumbeat

Of endless Gratitude

For Life

For friends

For family

For teachers

For those who were

For me still being here

For All 

That is. 

At the lake - Sejs - 14 August 2023

Focussing

Walk more

Talk less

Listen louder

Placing my attention

Is an inner power

Filled with promise

This and that

No wonder

In the breath

Life at its best

Gratitude

From within

Living from within

makes

Everything beautiful

beyond thought….

What a sweet

Mystery

Learning to live from within

Living 

from within

Magic seems

To be 

build in. 

• 4 Febuary - Munnar, India

Entering the New year 2023

In this perfect storm

at this time in our story

as a race of humans striving to be

- most of us long for kindness, peace and sanity

- as is only natural.

Time to water that longing and trust that in the long run

we will learn and choose to live better and more lovingly together.

Wishing you all an even more awake life each day.

- with love and appreciation for our friendships with you

- Monica and Toke

The Art of Now

Learning how to flow home into

The simple Oneness of Life itself

Is an ancient Art

Yet it is always

Ever possible in

The Here and Now

What if this is

The medicine for how

to know myself

To cocreate with

&

serve others and the Whole

In peaceful coexistence 

To practise

Wellbeing for

All?

What a day

Oh what a day

In the dojo

Of nowness

What a long moment

Of being with

The breath

In peaceful

Coexistence

And gentle

Well being

For All. 

In the midst

In the midst

Of each moment

Lies the possibility

Of peace. 

What a gift

What a knowing

To be trusted. 

Surfing 

On my breath

I get to drink

From that cup. 

A deep bow

To the gracious

Giver

Of such a gift. 

Focussing...

Focussing gently

on Life flowing

Within

And

Around

The experience

Of

Magic

Arises

Naturally

Misty morning

The great game

The smaller play

The dance called living

War and peace

Fear and courage

Hate and love

Needs to be

Understood and respected for what

They each are. 

Choices 

to be made

Peace

To be practised

Love 

to be felt

Courage 

to be one with Life

To arise

The more  - the sooner

The better. 

On a misty morning